Oct 20, 2006 · The Prestige: Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo. Rival 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter battle for trade secrets.

Director Christopher Nolan has a proclivity for warped narratives (Memento) and in The Prestige he serves up a deliciously twisty tale, puffed full of magic theatricality and inventive cinematic devices.

The Prestige: Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Piper Perabo. Rival 19th-century magicians engage in a bitter battle for trade secrets.

Christopher Nolan. Writer: Tenet. Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England.

A magician performs an illusion for a young girl explaining that each trick has three parts; the pledge, where the audience is presented with an ordinary object; the turn, where the object is turned into something extraordinary; and the prestige, where the object is brought back.

The Director's Notebook: The Cinematic Sleight of Hand of Christopher Nolan: Directed by Mark Rance. With Christopher Nolan, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Hall, Christopher Priest. The making of "The Prestige" and Christopher Nolan's techniques are explained.

Stuffed with hard-working actors, sleek effects and stagy period details, The Prestige, directed by Christopher Nolan from a script he wrote with his brother Jonathan, is an intricate and elaborate machine designed for the simple purpose of diversion.

The Prestige (2006) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

Following: Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan. A young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing.

Tenet: Directed by Christopher Nolan. With Juhan Ulfsak, Jefferson Hall, Ivo Uukkivi, Andrew Howard. Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time.